Os Guinness



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avg rating: 3.78 | 188 ratings | 30 distinct works
The Call: Finding and Fulfilli... The Call: Finding and Fulfilling the Central Purpose of Your Life (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.87 — 79 ratings — published 2003
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Unspeakable: Facing Up to Evil... Unspeakable: Facing Up to Evil in an Age of Genocide and Terror (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.75 — 12 ratings — published 2005
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Time for Truth: Living Free in... Time for Truth: Living Free in a World of Lies, Hype, and Spin (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.75 — 12 ratings — published 2002
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Invitation to the Classics: A ... Invitation to the Classics: A Guide to Books Youve Always Wanted to Read (Masterworks Series)
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avg rating 4.10 — 10 ratings — published 2006
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Fit Bodies Fat Minds:  Why Eva... Fit Bodies Fat Minds: Why Evangelicals Don't Think and What to Do About It (Hourglass Books)
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avg rating 3.45 — 11 ratings — published 1994
2 editions
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The Dust of Death: The Sixties... The Dust of Death: The Sixties Counterculture and How It Changed America Forever (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.40 — 5 ratings — published 1994
4 editions
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In two minds: The dilemma of d... In two minds: The dilemma of doubt & how to resolve it (Unknown Binding)
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avg rating 4.50 — 4 ratings — published 1976
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American Hour American Hour (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.25 — 4 ratings — published 1994
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The Gravedigger File: Papers o... The Gravedigger File: Papers on the Subversion of the Modern Church (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.75 — 4 ratings — published 1983
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Unspeakable: Facing Up to the ... Unspeakable: Facing Up to the Challenge of Evil (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.75 — 4 ratings — published 2006
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"Christians simply haven't developed Christian tools of analysis to examine culture properly. Or rather, the tools the church once had have grown rusty or been mislaid. What often happens is that Christians wake up to some incident or issue and suddenly realize they need to analyze what's going on. Then, having no tools of their own, they lean across and borrow the tools nearest them.

They don't realize that, in their haste, they are borrowing not an isolated tool but a whole philosophical toolbox laden with tools which have their own particular bias to every problem (a Trojan horse in the toolbox, if you like). The toolbox may be Freudian, Hindu or Marxist. Occasionally, the toolbox is right-wing; more often today it is liberal or left-wing (the former mainly in North America, the latter mainly in Europe). Rarely - and this is all that matters to us - is it consistently or coherently Christian.

When Christians use tools for analysis (or bandy certain terms of description) which have non-Christian assumptions embedded within them, these tools (and terms) eventually act back on them like wearing someone else's glasses or walking in someone else's shoes. The tools shape the user. Their recent failure to think critically about culture has made Christians uniquely susceptible to this."
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"The right to believe anything does not mean anything to believe in is right."
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